@eeggert1 and I are going to be hosting a “getting started with OpenMRS” hands on workshop at Johns Hopkins and we’re hoping to cover the following split over two 2 hour sessions:
Installation instructions to set up the standalone of OpenMRS 2.0 will be sent out in advance to the participants.
Day 1:
Intro to openMRS, its tech stack and its data model
System installation (if anyone had any problems)
Creation of user/provider types, managing privileges
4.Concepts: What are they and how to make concepts
Creating a form using the HTML forms module
Homework: Create your own form
Day 2:
6. Installing modules - how to
7. Getting started with creating your own module [“hello world”]
8. How to get plugged into the community - Talk, Wiki, IRC.
Homework: Creating a module which includes Dashboard extension, a fragment and a page
The audience is mainly going to be non-programmers.
Feedback on the session content and resources to conduct it would be highly appreciated!!!
@dkayiwa, @raff: I liked the session you guys conducted on extending and customizing OpenMRS at the summit last year in Singapore…any chance you could share those slides with us? Thanks!
@ngoel2 if you have a good internet connection consider introducing the SDK which for beginners is the easiest way to get an installation up and running.
Intro to openMRS, its tech stack and building blocks:
Patients
Users/Providers
Concepts
Visits/Encounters/Observations
Modules
System installation using SDK
Creation of user/provider types, managing privileges
Concepts: Using CIEL and creating custom concepts (also why to avoid doing this)
Creating a form using the HTML form entry module
Create a form
Configure the form using Form metadata
Using the form to enter data for a visit
Homework: Create your own form
Day 2:
6. Installing and upgrading modules
7. Getting started with creating your own module [“hello world”] - using SDK
8. How to get plugged into the community - Talk, Wiki, IRC
Homework: Creating a module which includes Home Page extension, a fragment and a page
@ngoel2 Have you been able to prepare any workshop materials on this? I would love to review them with the aim of doing a couple of similar workshop in Kampala, to help the local community get up to speed and start supporting the national implementation.
Not yet, but we’ll prepare something a bit closer to the date. I’ll definitely
share and upload them here. I can also check with the school to see if we can
webcast the workshop if anyone wants to attend virtually. Would that be of
interest to you?
Neha Goel
@ngoel2 a potential broadcast would be great
we are also trying to put together teaching materials ( it is part of our organizational plan for this year–and we haven’t made much progress); anything that you can share would be greatly appreciated. Are your going to have an overview on clinical informatics at the beginning? that might help set the stage for why this work is so important. Are you going to record what you do?
@janflowers- this might help us with our educational material planning .
@ngoel2 Just wanted to ask if you can share your workshop materials, even if in draft form, as it would be a good basis to build a community resource round them. I am planning to run a couple of workshops before and during the OpenMRS conference in December, as part of community outreach activities, hence the constant pinging.
@ngoel2, can you share your decks? they were great when i sat in on some of your training! thanks
@mcropp2019 can also use these as we try to improve our educational materials!
I haven’t had a chance to edit it yet - how useful would you say it would be if we were to edit it?
I used a modified version of a ppt that was made at the OpenMRS summit - I believe I found it on SlideShare - I certainly can’t take credit for it. I’ve uploaded it here
OpenMRS is a widely used opensource medical record system, this two-day workshop is intended to be a hands-on experience to get introduced to OpenMRS, set up an instance of OpenMRS and customize it. Any one is welcome, some basic background in programming would be useful however it is not required.
Day 1, Oct 20th, 3 - 5 pm:
Intro to OpenMRS, its tech stack and its data model
System installation (if anyone had any problems)
Creation of user/provider types (eg: doctor, nurse, community health worker), managing privileges
Concepts: What are they and how to make concepts
Creating a form using the HTML forms module
Do it yourself: Create your own form
Day 2, Oct 27th, 3 - 5 pm:
What is a module in OpenMRS? Installing modules - how to
Getting started with creating your own module [“hello world”]
Further resources and how to get plugged into the OpenMRS community - Talk, Wiki, IRC.
Do it yourself: Creating a module which includes Dashboard extension, a fragment and a page
Installation instructions to set up the standalone of OpenMRS 2.0 will be sent out in advance to the participants. In order to get the most out of the workshop, participants are expected to come in with their system set up.